Richard Gilman
Richard Gilman | |
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Died | October 28, 2006 | (aged 83)
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Yasuko Shiojiri (m. 1992) |
Richard Martin Gilman (April 30, 1923 – October 28, 2006) was an American drama and literary critic.
Early life
On April 30, 1923, Gilman was born as Richard Martin Gilman in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Gilman's family is Jewish.[1] [2]
Education
In 1947, Gilman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
Career
Gilman enlisted into the U.S. Marine Corps in 1941 and was stationed in the Pacific during World War II.[2] After his service, he attended the New School for Social Research in New York.
Gilman was a freelance writer. After converting to Catholicism, he wrote for the left-leaning Catholic journal Commonweal and from 1964 to 1967, he was the drama critic for Newsweek.[2]
In 1967, the dean of the Yale School of Drama, Robert Brustein, invited him to teach. Gilman was a professor at Yale School of Drama for 31 years.[2] He also taught at Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, Barnard and the City University of New York.[2]
Gilman was the author of five books of criticism, and a memoir.[2]
Personal life
In 1949, Gilman married painter Esther Morgenstern.[2] In 1966, Gilman married Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent,[2] (who would go on to co-found the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates with Morton L. Janklow), In 1992, Gilman married Japanese scholar, Yasuko Shiojiri, who would translate his books into Japanese.[2] Gilman has three children from his first two marriages: Nicholas, Priscilla, and Claire.[2]
Gilman died of lung cancer on October 28, 2006, at the age of 83 at his home in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.[2][1]
He was born Jewish, converted to Catholicism as an adult, and lapsed from that faith eight years later. His memoir Faith, Sex, Mystery is primarily devoted to explaining his conversion and deconversion.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Richard Gilman, Theater Critic, Dies at 83". The New York Times. October 31, 2006. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Los Angeles Times: "Richard Gilman, 83; influential theater critic and longtime Yale drama professor" by Charles McNulty November 04, 2006
- ^ New York Times: "Best Sellers February 1, 1987" "Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir, by Richard Gilman. (Simon & Schuster, $16.95.) In a sort of rueful tranquillity, tinged with the pain of loss, the writer and critic recollects and reflects on his conversion from Jewish atheist to Roman Catholic nearly 35 years ago, and his lapse from the church eight years later"
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